Maintaining a healthy website is crucial for SEO, and fixing broken links is an easy but impactful way to improve your site health. In this article, we’ll walk you through how to run a free broken link checker on your site and how to fix the broken inbound and outbound links it identifies.

What are Broken Links?

1. Inbound Links: These are links from other websites directed to your site. If they lead to a non-existent page, they're broken.
2. Outbound Links: Links from your site to other websites. They become broken if the external page is removed or relocated.

How Broken Link Checkers Work

Broken link checkers like the one on Ahrefs crawl your website, identifying any links that lead to dead ends. They provide a report categorizing links into inbound and outbound, helping you pinpoint exactly where the issues lie.